by Philip Eade
22. 29 January 1926; EWD, p. 244.
23. 30 January 1930; EWD, p. 245.
24. Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine, March 1937, EAR, p. 191.
25. Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, p. 120.
26. 13 March 1926; EWD, p. 249.
27. 10 June 1926; EWD, p. 254.
28. 1 April 1926; EWD, p. 250.
29. A Little Learning, p. 229.
30. 11 January 1926; EWD, p. 242.
31. 1 April 1926; EWD, p. 250.
32. 8 March 1926; EWD, p. 248.
33. 24 July 1926; EWD, p. 256.
34. Alastair Graham to Michael Davie, November 1975, AWA. ‘It must have been a terrible strain on E’s nerves being cooped up with a lot of strangers whom he would never have chosen as companions, and no means of escape.’
35. 25 August 1926; EWD, p. 263.
36. Postcript to PRB (Dalrymple Press edition, 1982), p. 44.
37. 28 September 1925; EWD, p. 225.
38. Alec Waugh, Early Years, p. 216.
39. Manchester Guardian, 29 October 1926.
40. 30 October 1926; EWD, p. 268.
41. Literary Review, 9 April 1927, quoted in Robert Murray Davis, Evelyn Waugh, Writer.
42. EW to Henry Yorke [1926], EWL, p. 24; the book was published before Yorke left Oxford without a degree that Christmas.
43. 22 September 1926; EWD, p. 265.
44. 2 October 1926; EWD, p. 266.
45. 6 December 1926; EWD, p. 272.
46. James Knox, Robert Byron, p. 101.
47. Fallowell, How to Disappear, pp. 177–8.
48. Andrew Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, p. 42.
49. 1 January 1927; EWD, p. 275.
50. 7 January 1927; EWD, p. 277.
51. 4 January 1927; EWD, p. 276.
52. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 71.
53. 20 February 1927; EWD, p. 281.
54. Ibid.
55. 21 February 1927; EWD, p. 281.
56. Edmund to EW [dated from postmark 21 February 1927]; BL.
57. 7 March 1927; EWD, p. 282.
58. 28 February 1927; EWD, p. 281.
59. Ibid.
60. Bill Egan, Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen, (Scarecrow Press, 2004), p. 174.
61. 28 February 1927; EWD, p. 281.
62. 15 March 1926; EWD, p. 249.
63. Note headed ‘Olivia Plunket Greene’ by Harman Grisewood; AWA.
10 Shevelyn
1. 23 May 1927; EWD, p. 284.
2. Unpublished, untitled manuscript by Evelyn Gardner ‘about my marriage to Evelyn Waugh and its break-up’; copy in AWA.
3. The Times, 29 September 1933.
4. Note by Lady Mary Clive headed ‘Evelyn Gardner’ (1987); AWA.
5. 1 July 1927; EWD, p. 284–5.
6. ‘Careers for our Sons: The Complete Journalist’, Passing Show, 26 January 1929; EAR, p. 48.
7. Alastair Graham to Michael Davie, November 1975; AWA.
8. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 21 November 1927, Columbia University, cited in Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 166.
9. Ibid, p. 162.
10. Evelyn Gardner interview with Michael Davie, 24 February 1973; AWA.
11. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, November 1927; CU.
12. Lady Pansy Pakenham to John Maxse, 29 December 1927; CU.
13. Ibid.
14. Evelyn Gardner interview with Michael Davie, 24 February 1973; AWA.
15. 3 September 1927; EWD, p. 249.
16. Evelyn Gardner to Mrs Arthur Waugh, 28 December 1927; HRC.
17. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, November 1927; CU.
18. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 200.
19. EW to Nancy Mitford, 8 January 1952; EWL, p. 364.
20. See Donat Gallagher, ‘Evelyn Waugh and the Vatican Divorce’, in Alain Blayac (ed.), Evelyn Waugh: New Directions, p. 73.
21. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 4 May 1928; CU.
22. Pansy Pakenham to John Maxse, 8 May 1928; CU.
23. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 2 May 1928; CU.
24. Pansy Pakenham to John Maxse, 8 May 1928; CU.
25. EW to TLS, 17 May 1928; EWL, p. 28.
26. EWCH, p. 79.
27. Anthony Powell, Messengers of Day, p. 22.
28. Carew, Fragment of Friendship, pp. 81–2.
29. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 2 February 1928; CU.
30. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 28 March and 18 July 1928; CU.
31. Pansy Pakenham to John Maxse, 19 March 1928; CU.
32. Pansy Pakenham to John Maxse, 12 June 1928; CU.
33. 27 June 1928; EWD, p. 295.
11 A Common Experience, I’m Told
1. Unpublished, untitled manuscript by Evelyn Gardner ‘about my marriage to Evelyn Waugh and its break-up’; copy in AWA; Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 18 July 1928, CU.
2. Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 202.
3. 25 June 1928, Robert Byron Letters Home, p. 103.
4. Catherine Waugh Diary, 27 June 1928; BU.
5. Evelyn Gardner interview with Michael Davie, 24 February 1973; AWA.
6. Nancy Mitford to Heywood Hill, 22 May 1966, The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street, pp. 117–18.
7. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 18 July 1928; CU; 6 July 1928; EWD, p. 295.
8. EW to Tom Balston, [c. 27 January 1929], copy in AWA.
9. Saturday, 14 July 1928; EWD, p. 295.
10. The Observer, 23 September 1928; EWCH, p. 81.
11. Evening Standard, 11 October 1928; EWCH, p. 82.
12. Naomi Mitchison to EW, undated letter [autumn 1928]; BL.
13. Derwent May (ed)., Good Talk: An Anthology from BBC Radio, p. 15.
14. Evening News, 2 November 1928, EWCH, p. 84.
15. New Statesman, 3 November 1928, EWCH, p. 85.
16. Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties, pp. 105–6.
17. Hugh Massingberd in The Antony Powell Society Newsletter, Issue 3, Summer 2001.
18. Harold Acton to EW, 18 September 1928; BL.
19. 8 October 1928; EWD, p. 295.
20. Decline and Fall, p. 120 (Penguin Modern Classics edition).
21. 18 October 1924; EWD, p. 295.
22. Wheen, Tom Driberg, p. 258.
23. Decline and Fall, p. 120 (Penguin Modern Classics edition).
24. EW to Thomas Balston, 1 October 1928; BL.
25. Good Talk, p. 16.
26. Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 204.
27. Unpublished, untitled manuscript by Evelyn Gardner ‘about my marriage to Evelyn Waugh and its break-up’; copy in AWA.
28. 8 October 1928; EWD, p. 297.
29. 12 October 1928; EWD, p. 298.
30. EW to A. D. Peters, undated; EWL, p. 30.
31. 25 October 1928; EWD, p. 300.
32. See ‘Margot, I Presume’ by Duncan McLaren, www.evelynwaugh.org.uk.
33. 27 October 1928; EWD, p. 300.
34. Note by Lady Mary Clive on Evelyn Gardner (1987); AWA.
35. Daily Express, 13 February 1929, p. 19.
36. Labels, pp. 45–6.
37. Unpublished, untitled manuscript by Evelyn Gardner ‘about my marriage to Evelyn Waugh and its break-up’, copy in AWA.
38. EW to Thomas Balston, [c. 27 January 1929]; copy in AWA.
39. Labels, pp. 29–30.
40. Ibid., p. 69.
41. Evelyn Gardner interview with Michael Davie, 24 February 1973; AWA.
42. EW to Thomas Balston, [c. 10 March 1929]; copy in AWA.
43. EW to Harold Acton, [c. 7 March 1929]; EWL, p. 31.
44. EW to Henry Yorke (the writer Henry Green) [19 March 1929]; AWA.
45. EW to Arthur Waugh, undated; BU.
46. EW to Thomas Balston, 18 March 1929; BL; EW to Arthur Waugh, undated; BU.
47. Evelyn Gardner interview with Michael Davie, 24 February 1973; AWA. NB in that interview and in her written account she said Evelyn’s trip had been to Cyprus, but all the other evidence points to his having go
ne to Cairo.
48. EW to Harold Acton, 31 March 1929; copy in AWA.
49. EW to Henry Yorke, 4 May 1929; EWL, pp. 33–4.
50. EW to Harold Acton, c. 10 May 1929; copy in AWA.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid.
53. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, 26 May 1929; CU.
54. Labels, p. 206.
55. Evelyn Gardner to John Maxse, [May 1929; CU.
56. EW to Henry Yorke, c. 2 June 1929; EWL, pp. 35–6.
57. Powell, Messengers of Day, p. 99.
58. Ibid., p. 101.
59. Ibid., p. 99.
60. Unpublished, untitled manuscript by Evelyn Gardner ‘about my marriage to Evelyn Waugh and its break-up’, copy in AWA.
61. ‘My Friend Evelyn Waugh’ in Nancy Mitford, A Talent to Annoy, p. 177.
62. Daily Express, 12 June 1929.
63. Note of telephone interview between Eleanor Campbell-Orde and Selina Hastings, March 1990; AWA.
64. Unpublished, untitled manuscript by Evelyn Gardner ‘about my marriage to Evelyn Waugh and its break-up’; copy in AWA.
65. EW to Henry Yorke, 20 June 1929; copy in AWA.
66. Sir John Heygate to Michael Davie, 11 February 1975; AWA.
67. The Tatler, 3 July 1929, p. 46; Sketch, 3 July 1929; see also ‘Those Parties Again’ by Duncan McLaren in www.evelynwaugh.org.uk.
68. Powell, Messengers of Day, p. 126.
69. Elizabeth Montagu, Honourable Rebel, p. 105.
70. Powell, Messengers of Day, p. 128.
71. Ibid.; the telegram was dated about 26 July, Powell remembered. See ‘The Tatler’s Role in Waugh’s Downfall’ by Jacqueline McDonnell, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 23 June 1989.
72. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 94; Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 195.
73. Evelyn Waugh Petition for Divorce, copy in AWA.
74. Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn, p. 191.
75. Bystander, 17 July 1929.
76. Margaret Wyndham to John Maxse, 30 July 1929; CU.
77. Sir John Heygate to Mark Amory, 25 February 1976; AWA.
78. Selina Hastings interview with Eleanor Campbell Orde, 1991; AWA.
79. EW to Tom Balston, undated, copy in AWA.
80. Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn, p. 191.
81. Ibid., p. 192.
82. EW to Catherine and Arthur Waugh [5 August 1929]; BU.
83. Ibid.
84. Note by Lady Mary Clive on Evelyn Gardner (1987); AWA.
85. EW to Harold Acton, 4 August 1929; EWL, pp. 38–9.
86. Harold Acton to EW, 5 August 1929; BL.
87. EW to Henry Yorke, [c. 13 September 1929]; EWL, p. 40.
88. See note of Selina Hastings’s interview with Eleanor Campbell-Orde, 1991; copy in AWA. In a letter Eleanor wrote to John Heygate, she remembered it slightly differently, recalling that she told him that she would ‘wait and see’.
12 Perversion to Rome
1. Henry Lamb to EW, 14 August 1929; BL.
2. Lady Pansy Lamb to J. H. Maxse, 26 September 1929; CU.
3. Note by Lady Mary Clive on Evelyn Gardner (1987); AWA.
4. ‘My Friend Evelyn Waugh’ in Nancy Mitford, A Talent to Annoy, p. 234; see also Nancy Mitford to Christopher Sykes, undated; Christopher Sykes Papers, Georgetown University.
5. Evelyn Nightingale to Michael Davie, 13 October 1975.
6. Nancy Mitford interview with Christopher Sykes; Sykes Papers, GU.
7. Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels, p. 34.
8. 18 June 1930; EWD, pp. 315–16.
9. Nancy Mitford to Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 1930, quoted in Laura Thompson, Life in a Cold Climate, p. 93.
10. The Independent, 13 August 2003.
11. EW to Henry Yorke [c. 13 September 1929]; EWL, p. 39.
12. 30 December 1929, Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, p. 34.
13. Diana Mosley to Christopher Sykes, 30 September 1975, Sykes Papers, GU.
14. EW to Diana Mosley, 30 March 1966, EWL, pp. 638–9.
15. Diana Mosley to Christopher Sykes, 30 September 1975, Sykes Papers, GU.
16. Catherine Waugh Diary, 24 December 1929; BU.
17. EW to Bryan and Diana Guinness, 4 January 1930, copy in AWA.
18. Evening Standard, 30 January 1930.
19. Paris Review, Vol. 30 (1963), p. 77.
20. BBC TV Face to Face interview with John Freeman, June 1960.
21. Daily Mirror, 7 February 1931.
22. J. F. Roxburgh to EW, 11 July 1930; BL.
23. 26 May 1930; EWD, p. 311.
24. EW to Lionel Fielden, 7 July 1930; copy in AWA.
25. Lionel Fielden to EW, 10 July 1930; BL.
26. 5 July 1930; EWD, p. 320.
27. EW to Diana Guinness, 17 July 1930; copy in AWA.
28. Bryan Guinness to EW, 23 July 1930.
29. EW to Diana Mosley, 9 March 1966; copy in AWA.
30. Cited in Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 219.
31. Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 54.
32. Alec Waugh, The Best Wine Last, p.45; Alec Waugh to Michael Davie, 1972; AWA.
33. Arthur Waugh Diary, 29 April 1930; BU.
34. 29 May 1930; EWD, p. 312.
35. 12 June 1930; EWD, p. 314.
36. 19 June 1930; EWD, p. 316.
37. John Bull, 23 August 1930; EAR, pp. 94–5.
38. Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn, pp. 191–2.
39. Face to Face interview, 1960.
40. Quoted in Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 107.
41. Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, p. 62.
42. ‘Come Inside’, in John A. O’Brien (ed.), The Road to Damascus (1962); EAR, p. 367.
43. Face to Face interview, 1960.
44. EW to Martin D’Arcy [21 August 1930]; AWA.
45. Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, p. 64.
46. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 217.
47. Evelyn Waugh in Letters to Terence Greenidge.
13 The Dutch Girl
1. Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, Grace and Favour, p. 117.
2. The Times, 16 August 1935.
3. Grace and Favour, p. 117.
4. Cecil Beaton, Book of Beauty (Duckworth, 1930), p. 35.
5. Teresa Cuthbertson obituary in The Times, 15 June 2010.
6. Jacqueline Mcdonnell, Waugh on Women, p. 21.
7. Interview with Jacqueline Mcdonnell in 1984, cited in ibid., p. 23.
8. Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 222.
9. 1 June 1930; EWD, p. 313.
10. Daily Mail, 14 June 1930; EAR, pp. 78–80.
11. Teresa Jungman to EW, undated; BL.
12. Lord Longford to Selina Hastings, undated interview transcript; AWA.
13. Sarah Bradford, Sacheverell Sitwell, p. 217.
14. Daily Mail, 12 July 1930, cited in Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 213.
15. [2–12 September 1930]; EWD, p. 328.
16. Christine Longford, unpublished memoirs, cited in Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, p. 309.
17. Elizabeth Longford, The Pebbled Shore, pp. 105–6.
18. EWD [2–12 September 1930]; EWD, p. 328 (omitting the sentence about Frank and Elizabeth).
19. Bradford, Sacheverell Sitwell, p. 201.
20. Elizabeth Longford later recalled: ‘I rarely saw Evelyn on this visit except in the company of Alastair.’ Pebbled Shore, p. 105.
21. EW to Patrick Balfour, 25 September 1931; Balfour Papers, Huntington Library.
22. Alastair Graham to Michael Davie, undated; AWA.
23. Fallowell, How to Disappear, p. 218.
24. Ibid., p. 202.
25. David N. Thomas, Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, p. 86.
26. Paul Ferris, Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters, (Dent, 2000) p. 603.
27. Fallowell, How to Disappear, p. 165.
28. Ibid., pp. 170–73.
29. EW to Catherine and Arthur Waugh, 16 November 1930; AWA.
30. EW to Teresa Jungman [1 February 1931]
; private collection, copy in AWA.
31. Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember, p. 95.
32. Ibid., p. 96.
33. Arthur Waugh, One Man’s Road, p. 372.
34. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 216.
35. Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember, p. 190.
36. John Farrar to Bernice Baumgarten, 9 October 1931, HRC, cited in Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 247.
37. Alec Waugh to Patrick Balfour, 15 July 1931, Huntington Library.
38. Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember, p. 123.
39. EW to Patrick Balfour [26 July 1931], Huntington Library.
40. Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember, p. 123.
41. Ibid., p. 124.
42. EW to Patrick Balfour [3 August 1931], Huntington Library.
43. Cited in Paula Byrne, Mad World, p. 144.
44. Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember, p. 106.
45. Jane Mulvagh, Madresfield, p. 23.
46. Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, p. 50.
47. A Little Learning, pp. 205–6.
48. EW to Teresa Jungman [c. 24 October 1931]; private collection, copy in AWA.
49. EW to Patrick Balfour, [27 October 1931]; Balfour Papers, Huntington Library.
50. EW to Lady Sibell, Lady Mary and Lady Dorothy Lygon, 5 November [1931]; EWL, p. 59.
51. EW to Mary and Dorothy Lygon, 14/15 November 1931; copy in AWA.
52. EW to Teresa Jungman, 11 November 1931; private collection, copy in AWA.
53. EW to Teresa Jungman [c. 13 November 1931]; private collection, copy in AWA.
54. EW to Teresa Jungman, 3 December 1931; private collection, copy in AWA.
55. EW to Teresa Jungman, [c. 6 January 1932]; private collection, copy in AWA.
56. EW to Arthur Windham Baldwin, 14 January [1932]; EWL, p. 61.
57. EWL, p. 649.
58. EW to Teresa Jungman, 29 February 1932; private collection, copy in AWA.
59. EW to Teresa Jungman, [c. 7 March 1932]; private collection, copy in AWA.
60. EW to Teresa Jungman, 16 April 1932; private collection, copy in AWA.
61. EW to Arthur Windham Baldwin [16 April 1932]; EWL, p. 63.
62. EW to W. N. Roughead [c. 8 May 1932]; copy in AWA.
63. EW to Lady Dorothy Lygon [April 1932]; copy in AWA.
64. Referred to in his open letter to Archbishop Francis Bourne, 15 May 1933.
65. See James Fox, White Mischief, (Cape, 1982), p. 50; the de Traffords’ eventual divorce was recorded in The Times, 26 October 1937.
66. EW to Lady Dorothy Lygon [c. 20 April 1932]; EWL, p. 64.
67. EW to Teresa Jungman, 23 May 1932; private collection, copy in AWA.
68. Cited in Byrne, Mad World, p. 192.